Ben Lerner Books
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By Ben Lerner
"A beautiful and utterly original novel about making art, love, and children during the twilight of an empire Ben Lerner's first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station, was hailed as "one of the truest...
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The hatred of poetry
By Ben Lerner
"No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wrote Marianne Moore. "Many more people agree they hate poetry," Ben Lerner writes, "than can agree...
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Margaux Williamson
By Sheila Heti, Margaux Williamson, Jessica Bradley, Ben Lerner, Sarah Milroy
"While women artists of the early twentieth century were known for depicting interior spaces as places of privacy and domestic quietude, Margaux Williamson's interiors reveal spaces of creativity,...
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The Lichtenberg figures
By Ben Lerner
"The Lichtenberg Figures, winner of the Hayden Carruth Award for Emerging Poets, is a sonnet sequence that interrogates the relationships between language and memory, violence and form. The book ta...
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